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What Is the Emerging Leaders Program?
Emerging Leaders began in 2007 as one of ALA Immediate Past President Leslie Burger’s six initiatives. The Emerging Leaders program enables newer librarians from across the country to participate in problem-solving workgroups; network with peers; gain an inside look into ALA structure, and have an opportunity to serve the profession in a leadership capacity. It puts them on the fast track to ALA and professional leadership.

For more information, contact Beatrice Calvin, Program Officer, ALA Office for Human Resource Development and Recruitment.

[edit]How Are Emerging Leaders Chosen?
The selection committees seek diversity based on geography, gender, ethnicity and type of library. They pay particular attention to, and value candidates' statements as well as those of their references.

Project Description:
Help Develop and Identify Free Web-Based tutorials and Professional Development Opportunities that Librarians in other countries could access.

From Paloma for the future list:

QUESTION: Can anybody recommend some scholar-friendly non-English language/multilingual social bookmarking sites? How are subject librarians working with these? Are you adding them to your subject web sites, creating output options from the library catalog...?

A new series of free online OPAL (www.opal-online.org) events is about to get underway. As the series name implies, these "Casual Conversations" will be one-hour informal conversations with librarians. Everyone in the world is welcome to participate. There is no need to register. Just show up online, listen, text chat, and talk if you want.

If you cannot participate live online, we plan to record, archive, and podcast these casual conversations, adding them to the OPAL Archive
(http://www.opal-online.org/archive.htm) soon after the conclusion of each conversation.